Nathan Meech

Experience

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  Arcadia Group Ltd

  Jul 2009 - Nov 2013

  Duty Manager

  • Routing sales productivity reports and leading teams to achieve sales and KPI targets incl. store cards and email capture.• Ensuring employees are offering exceptional customer service.• Assisting store managers.• Promptly managing customer complaints. • Banking.• Helping to implement store policies.• Successfully running the store in absence of Senior Managers.• Managing store cleanliness and organization.• Recognised for excellent work ethic and efforts to motivate teams which contributed to being rewarded ‘Store of the Year’. Show less

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  Countess of Chester Hospital

  Nov 2013 - Jan 2019

  • Effectively managing a team of 30 staff including – rota, sickness, disciplinaries etc.• Ensuring safe and effective patient care is delivered at all times.• Staff development.• Promptly handling complaints in a professional manner, ensuring policy and procedures are adhered. • Operational input in the delivery of new concepts which delivered cost savings and enhanced ways of working. • Leading various national key initiatives including Red2Green board round, endPJparalysis and SAFER flow bundle. Show less • Providing Occupational Therapy assessments, interventions and treatments.• Working with clients with physical and mental health needs and learning disabilities. • Working within a multi professional team effectively. • Monitoring client’s development.• Providing support and educating clients family and friends.• Managing difficult conversations relating to health and social needs • Keeping and updating client records.• Mentoring junior Allied Health Professionals.• Undertaking audits to improve safety and care. Show less

  • Deputy Manager

    Jul 2016 - Jan 2019

  • Occupational Therapist

    Nov 2013 - Jul 2016
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  Cheshire West Integrated Care Partnership

  Jan 2019 - Jul 2021

  Project Manager

  •Planning and implementing projects within the Integrated Care Partnership, focusing on delivering care closer to home as part of the Enhanced Community Based Services programme. •Collaborating with various NHS trusts and Cheshire West and Chester Council to deliver an integrated care model. •Demonstrating strong knowledge and understanding of the electronic patient record system and its implementation within an acute hospital. •Working to defined time scales which are regularly monitored ensuring management stages are met before progressing. •Coordinating medium-to-large scale projects. •Completion of risk assessments associated to projects. •Full Project Administration incl. creating project plans, dashboards, and producing reports. •Reporting on performance at all levels including Programme. •Taking accountability and implementing strategy to drive best practice and improved outcomes. •Delivering change, considering safety, quality and efficiency at all times. •Utilisation of continuous improvement methodology to support projects e.g. process mapping, time in motion and PDSA. •Chairing task and finish groups, escalation meetings etc. •Facilitating workshops to drive professional development. •Delivering presentations at varying points of projects. •Delivering in-depth, effective staff training. •Contributed comprehensive operational and organisational support into the development of a new service which delivered improved patient care, efficiency and cost savings. •Achieved significant reduction in wait time for children / young people accessing children’s service through service redesign. Show less

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  Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

  Jul 2021 - Mar 2022

  Project Manager

  •Working within the Transformation team I am responsible for supporting the delivery of major change programmes including; Covid-19 recovery, implementation of the NHS Long Term Plan, integration of services as part of the Single Hospital Service model and transition to Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT). •Accountable for planning, structuring, and executing high risk and complex projects.•Support the Head of Delivery to lead on the programme management office set up,including the development of all key project documentation.•Plan the programme and monitoring its overall progress, resolving issues and escalating any risks or issues, initiating corrective action as appropriate.•Ensure the delivery of programme workstreams from the projects is to the appropriate level of quality, on time and within budget, in accordance with the programme plan.•Identify and remove any blockages/bottlenecks that pose significant constraints to the programme’s ability to meet the programme plan, targets and the wider Greater Manchester sector objectives.•Ensure quality assurance and overall integrity of the programme.•Manage both the dependencies and the interfaces between projects and initiatingcorrective action where required.•Manage the risks to the programme’s successful outcome.•Work with the Delivery Manager to develop and manage risk management processfor the project. Show less

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  Cheshire West and Chester Council

  Mar 2022 - now

  Project Manager

  •Working within the Adult Social Care Transformation team, responsible for supporting the delivery of priority transformation programmes at a Local Authority and Cheshire West Place level.